§ The result
Bryq leads Cognisess on all 7 criteria.
Bryq and Cognisess, both Assessment entries, are 27 points apart under rubric v1.0, 57 for Bryq against 30 for Cognisess. Cognisess leads none of the 7 criteria, and Bryq is ahead on 6 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them. The advantage Bryq holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Bryq 70, Cognisess 20, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 33% of the weighted points Bryq gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
Vendor profile
Cognisess
UK talent-analytics platform that scores candidates and employees with 50+ game-based and questionnaire assessments and weighted job-fit 'profilers', can auto-pass or auto-reject applicants against score thresholds, and runs recorded video interviews with optional DeepLearn video analytics.
§ The record
Bryq and Cognisess are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | Cognisess |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2017 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Cognisess 20
9.0 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Cognisess 25
5.8 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Cognisess 20
3.0 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Cognisess 42
3.0 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Cognisess 32
2.8 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Cognisess 40
2.1 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Cognisess 42
1.4 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +27.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 27.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +27 beside that +27.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Cognisess.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Cognisess | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 25 | +29 | +5.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 20 | +50 | +9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 20 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 42 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 42 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 32 | +23 | +2.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 40 | +26 | +2.1 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 30 (F) | +27 | +27.1 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Bryq | Cognisess | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 21 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Cognisess has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Bryq and Cognisess sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 26 for Cognisess, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cognisess last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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